Concealed in the basement of a downtown Wauconda coffee shop is something that would amaze any child, or adult for that matter — a complete landscaped small-gauge train layout, with familiar sites and ...
The final coal train left the Indian River Power Plant this week, marking the end of decades of coal transportation on the ...
The last thing you’d expect a railroad coal car to do is take flight. But one tried in August 1926 at the John B. Hull & Son fuel business on upper Main Street in Great Barrington. Hull in 1900, ...
After 50 years, the “Funeral Train” still haunts area railroad enthusiasts and anthracite mining historians. The train, consisting of a few aging cabooses and freight cars, pulled out of the Central ...
The first health impact study of coal train pollution centers on the San Francisco Bay Area, with scientists finding communities near passing coal trains suffer worse health outcomes. Trains carrying ...